Paragon Park 1913 - ABA Sea Book Stork Mayflower donuts were so popular

Mayflower donuts were so popular there were constant lines outside the shops with people waiting eagerly for plump

There was a restaurant where huge sides of meat were roasted on open fires

This image may have a double meaning – it probably also represents the Manhattan cocktail made with whiskey

Gilded and tinted in a lithographic process using three stones

Paragon Park 1913 - ABA Sea Book Stork Mayflower donuts were so popularThis fanciful menu cover, dated 1913, was created for the American Bankers Association. It shows an impressively dressed lobster entertaining a group of mermaids. He towers over them with his giant claws but theres a light hearted aspect to it too, as the lobster is balancing a water melon like a juggler. With beautifully drawn clouds and a sailing ship in the distance, its certainly a striking image and typical of the era when dark humor was all the